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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Unexpected behaviour/tool paths

« on: February 09, 2021, 09:27:33 AM »

Do you have a tool changer or a tool setter?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Unexpected behaviour/tool paths

« on: February 08, 2021, 05:15:57 PM »

Do you have any code in your M6 macro?

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Share Your GCode / Re: bolt fluting

« on: February 08, 2021, 04:25:11 PM »

Lets say you want 4 x 100mm long scrolls rotating 360 degrees on a spindle 25mm diameter.

In general config turn OFF 'Rot 360 rollover' and 'Ang Short Rot on G0'

First set your x datum on end of spindle.
Set Y datum on centre line of spindle.
Set Z datum on centre line of spindle.

%
O1234
G21 G40 G00 G99
G53 Z0 (Send Z to home)
G92 A0 (Reset A to zero)
G00 G90 X0 Y0 A0
Z50. S10000 M3
Z14.
G01 Z11. F500
X-100. A360. F1000
G00 Z14.
X0 A90.
G01 Z11. F500
X-100. A450. F1000
G00 Z14.
X0 A180.
G01 Z11. F500
X-100. A540. F1000
G00 Z14.
X0 A270.
G01 Z11. F500
X-100. A630. F1000
G00 Z50.
X0 A0
M30
%

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Won’t finish homing

« on: February 04, 2021, 07:55:49 PM »

It sounds as if its waiting for the next axis to home, make sure you do NOT have A,B or C homing set to active.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Tool Change - how to go directly to tool-change position?

« on: February 04, 2021, 07:53:12 PM »

Select auto tool changer in general config

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ref xyz changes after program finish

« on: January 31, 2021, 04:28:20 PM »

The G28 lines send the machine to the home position.

You could replace then with :-

G53 Z0
G53 X0 Y0
M30

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Adding a touch plate

« on: January 31, 2021, 04:17:52 PM »

More detail of what you are trying to achieve will help

There are probe routines and touch plate routines if you search for them.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using multiple drill Z offsets in one drill chuck

« on: January 30, 2021, 12:46:22 PM »

If you are on a lathe with Mach3 lathe screen then you call tools with T0101 or T0102 or T0103 where the first 2 numbers are the tool number and the second pair are the offset number to use with that tool.

T0101 tool 1 offset 1

T0102 tool 1 offset 2

T0102 tool 1 offset 3

T1012 tool 10 offset 12
Etc.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Please help! i'm new to this

« on: January 21, 2021, 09:01:39 PM »

G28.1 is a homing command and should not be a problem if you have home switches set up on your machine.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Adding a second BOB

« on: January 19, 2021, 08:08:16 PM »

The setting is the same only the port number becomes 2